Civilization or Barbarism: An Authentic Anthropology

Challenging societal beliefs, this volume rethinks African and world history from an Afrocentric perspective. This last work of the well-known Senegalese scholar Cheikh Anta Diop(1923-86).

Civilization or Barbarism offers a refined statement of his life's work, to prove the primacy of African culture by proving that ancient Egypt was a black society, first in many cultural achievements later claimed by the following Indo-Aryan cultures. To this end, Diop discusses the palaeontology, sociology, anthropology, and intellectual history of the ancient Egyptians set against contemporaneous cultures and also the modern Wolofs